Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 28, 1936

Dodsworth (Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists). "Why don't you try stout,
Mr. Dodsworth?" drawls a woman's
voice from the shadowy corner of a steamship deck. Sam Dodsworth
(Walter Huston) who has just asked the steward for a drink that will
soothe his nerves, whirls around, surprised. Mr. Dodsworth's surprise
was nothing to that of Producer Sam Goldwyn and his staff when, at this
line, I he audience at a Hollywood preview last week burst into
applause. The applauders were not partisans of stout but of Mary Astor,
whose first line they recognized even before...